Event
Cardinal Pierre de Beaufort, nephew of the late Pope Clement VI
30 Dec 1370 · 43.95° N, 4.81° E
What the records say
- When
- 30 Dec 1370
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 43.95° N, 4.81° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, 1370 conclave.
Summary
Cardinal Pierre de Beaufort, nephew of the late Pope Clement VI, is unanimously elected as the new Pope by 18 of the 20 Roman Catholic cardinals at Avignon. Beaufort takes the name Pope Gregory XI and is crowned six days later.
2 sources record it
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributorsCreative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Nach dem Tod von Urban V. am 19. Dezember in Avignon wird Pierre Roger de Beaufort bereits am zweiten Tag des Konklaves einstimmig zum Papst gewählt”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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